25 Friday Dec 2015
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“In much the same way as the malignant cells of cancer invade and destroy the normal tissue of the body, so do the affairs and processes of the toymaker technocrats invade and destroy the balanced and stable earth organism”.
Kit Pedler, The Quest for Gaia: A Book of Changes
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14 Monday Dec 2015
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“So, too, of modern doctrines and discoveries – they may add to the convenience, but not the real happiness of the race. The improvement of mechanism, the piling up of fortunes, the building of cities, even the teachings of science, are of no avail towards hastening the perfection of the human soul or the human body; wonderful as they are, they are for the most part valueless”.
Henry Salt, Richard Jefferies: His Life and His Ideals
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06 Sunday Dec 2015
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“An existence designed by technocrats according to industrial norms is, in effect, a life of slavery”.
Miguel Amorós, Elementary Foundations of the Anti-Industrial Critique
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27 Friday Nov 2015
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“The anti-industrial critique does not deny the class struggle, it preserves and surpasses it and, moreover, class struggle cannot exist in today’s world other than in the form of anti-industrial struggle”.
Miguel Amorós, Elementary Foundations of the Anti-Industrial Critique
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21 Saturday Nov 2015
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“Factories, machines and bureaucracies are the real pillars of capitalist oppression”.
Miguel Amorós, Elementary Foundations of the Anti-Industrial Critique
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28 Wednesday Oct 2015
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“Technological optimism is the snake oil of urban-industrialism”.
Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends
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27 Sunday Sep 2015
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“Modern industry can be said to represent from all points of view the triumph of quantity, because its operations do not demand any knowledge other than quantitative, and because the instruments of which it makes use, that is to say machines properly so called, are developed in such a way that qualitative considerations come in to the least possible extent, while the men who work them are themselves limited to activity of an entirely mechanical kind”.
René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
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16 Wednesday Sep 2015
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“The increase in the speed of events, as the end of the cycle draws near, can be compared to the acceleration that takes place in the fall of heavy bodies: the course of the development of the present humanity closely resembles the movement of a mobile body running down a slope and going faster as it approaches the bottom”.
René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
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25 Tuesday Aug 2015
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“Technological idolatry is the religion whose doctrines are promulgated, explicitly or by implication, in the advertisement pages of our newspapers and magazines – the source, we may add parenthetically, from which millions of men, women and children in the capitalist countries derive their working philosophy of life… So whole-hearted is the modern faith in technological idols that (despite all the lessons of mechanized warfare) it is impossible to discover in the popular thinking of our time any trace of the ancient and profoundly realistic doctrine of hubris and inevitable nemesis. There is a very general belief that, where gadgets are concerned, we can get something for nothing – can enjoy all the advantages of an elaborate, top-heavy and constantly advancing technology without having to pay for them by any compensating disadvantages”.
Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
05 Tuesday May 2015
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“Advertising, entertainment by mass media, political propaganda, personal and public relationships – all of this, with superficial variations, has just one function, which is to adapt human beings to Technik”.
Jacques Ellul, Le Système technicien
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